[_Jim]

I think his point is that fear has a way of changing one's perspective.

THEN he should have stated so. To fail, then, in his attempt to convey that is to have failed utterly as a writer - this man's paid vocation. I think he's now trying to justify what he wrote while embdedded - now that he's back among his liberal 'friends' on the cocktail circuit.

[kittymyrib]

I think you're right. This is a mea culpa for seeming to have switched sides during the war, now that he is back home with the Boston Globe's America-haters. Otherwise, why in the world would he write this drivel? He is no Ernie Pyle.